Biden's inexorable March towards a US war for Israel. It provoked a war we never wanted. then expects us to defend it.[_link]

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US sends more fighter jets and ships to Middle East ahead of possible Iranian retaliation | ABC News |

Pentagon to also maintain a consistent aircraft carrier presence in the region.

There are currently two other destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean that are part of a regular mission to provide ballistic missile defense capabilities in that region.

Also stationed in the eastern Mediterranean are the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship and two other amphibious ships that are carrying the 2,200 Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

U.S. officials have said that the ships and the Marines aboard could be used to carry out an evacuation of U.S. personnel in the region should that become necessary.

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Israel v Iran War Imminent

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